'90s Alt-Rock Vets Blind Melon Announce First-Ever Aussie Tour

Veteran US alt-rock outfit Blind Melon are now in the sixth consecutive year — ninth all up — of their expansive "revival" era, which kicked off in 2006 when the band first reconvened following their original 1999 split, meaning they've now been around "a second time" for as long as they had in the first place — and they've still never been to Australia.

That's about to change, though, with the news that the band — who achieved wider renown in 1993 with breakthrough single No Rain (which, believe us, you have definitely heard before) — will be heading Down Under at last, playing three east coast shows this October. The band will get started in Brisbane, at the Woolly Mammoth, on Wednesday, 21 October — eerily enough, the 20th anniversary to the day of the death of original vocalist Shannon Hoon, which led to the band's original break-up following a protracted hiatus period — before picking up again at Max Watt's Sydney on Friday, 23 October, and Max Watt's Melbourne on Sunday, 25 October.

Aside from being the band's inaugural Australian shows, the tour is shrouded by a sense of the extra-special, given that 2015 marks the band's 25th anniversary since formation (including periods of inactivity), as well as the 20th anniversary of their venerated second full-length, Soup (1995). So there's lots to celebrate and pay tribute to when Blind Melon make their debut appearance on our shores.

Tickets for Blind Melon's 2015 tour of Australia are available now via The Venue Collective.

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